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Westminster Hall
Taxation: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - Tue 03 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) Friend agree that abolishing business rates would give small businesses the boost that they need to thrive - Speech Link
2: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) : they want to see a cut in business rates. - Speech Link
3: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) I am sure he will be able to hold his own debate at some point to tell us all what is going on in his - Speech Link
4: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Those changes allowed us to provide support for businesses, for example in the business rates system. - Speech Link
5: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) In the coming months, in my role as Exchequer Secretary I will of course continue to engage with businessessmall - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - Fri 30 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) clause that can all be delegated to somebody else.I do not want to overly labour the point in consideration - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) the UK to carry out their wish to be assisted to die, what would be the legal position in the criminal - Speech Link
3: None Requiring all steps in the Bill to be carried out face to face could also give rise to legal challenge - Speech Link
4: Lord Polak (Con - Life peer) I have to be in synagogue at 4.30 pm so I will not be able to speak to them, sadly; I had short speeches - Speech Link
5: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) extended to include all other injuries, because that could take us in a rather dangerous direction.We - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None It would also be helpful to whoever is in the Chair for there to be an indication if anybody wishes to - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) This clause reduces the rate of income tax relief for investment in VCTs from 30% to 20%. - Speech Link
3: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) common relief in relation to which reimbursement would be helpful. - Speech Link
4: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) to be written off annually, with assets allocated to either a main rate or special rate pool, depending - Speech Link
5: Joshua Reynolds (LD - Maidenhead) We do not believe that the allowance should expire in 2027; it needs to be extended significantly further - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 27 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) One in three businesses continue to benefit from small business rate relief and an additional 85,000 - Speech Link
2: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) will be in receipt of small business rate relief. - Speech Link
3: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Businesses in my city will see an increase of up to 93% in their business rates. - Speech Link
4: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) Friend for the work that she does to champion small businesses, and all businesses in the Black Country - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
2nd reading - Mon 26 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab - Slough) covenant be extended to all Government Departments and to the devolved Administrations and that its - Speech Link
2: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) armed forces for the next half-decade.The war in Ukraine should be a wake-up call to all of us, and - Speech Link
3: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) In all that time a 98% failure rate in a public sector initiative amounts to the most catastrophic fiasco - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We need to be faithful in adversity for her and for all the others who have served. - Speech Link
5: Jayne Kirkham (LAB - Truro and Falmouth) People can do all sorts of things in the forces—they can learn to be a pilot, a medic, an engineer or - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Retail and Hospitality Sector - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Smith of Hindhead (Con - Life peer) on the way to help pubs should be extended to help clubs in the same way, for the same reasons, and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Shah (Lab - Life peer) of London, I helped to deliver programmes to support small businesses in Wembley to get online, recognising - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The ladder of opportunity that was offered to all of us is being denied to them.If our small businesses - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Day of Education - Thu 22 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (Lab - Southgate and Wood Green) There is evidence to show how effective investing in basic education could be. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (RUK - Romford) send their children to be educated here in the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) to a small group of male leaders in 15 of the 16 national dialogues examined. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) That, let us be clear, is the worst drug-related death rate in Europe. - Speech Link
2: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) That will be a huge relief to the talented workforce, not just in those parts of Scotland, but at Dellner - Speech Link
3: Douglas Alexander (LAB - Lothian East) Both Brand Scotland and the power of place can help small businesses in Scotland and elsewhere to increase - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) All Members of Parliament should be able to visit anywhere in their constituency, schools or other places - Speech Link
5: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) There is an answer to this: Conservatives would abolish business rates for small businesses on the high - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Call for General Election - Mon 12 Jan 2026
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) not feature at all in the Labour party manifesto but looks set to be imposed: digital ID. - Speech Link
2: Jim Dickson (Lab - Dartford) be put in place to make the scheme work. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We are all here in the national interest of course—to try to do the best by this country—but in our view - Speech Link
4: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) to the petition, in that she is telling people that they should be grateful—“We’re doing all these things - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Fuel Duty Relief - Wed 07 Jan 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) up in England, but thanks to the scheme it has stayed competitive on price, as a small business that - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber) Does he agree that the scheme should not only be further extended to cover more people in rural areas - Speech Link
3: Ian Roome (LD - North Devon) What more can be done to ensure that in the future small but important schemes such as this one, which - Speech Link
4: Andrew George (LD - St Ives) We can see that it is and has been impossible for him and his business to be in any way competitive in - Speech Link
5: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) Member was magnanimous in calling for the scheme to be extended not to west Oxfordshire, but instead - Speech Link